Tories replicate Brexit campaign with late spending surge on Facebook
The ad strategy echoes that of Vote Leave in 2016, which used data harvested by Cambridge Analytica to target voters.
The ad strategy echoes that of Vote Leave in 2016, which used data harvested by Cambridge Analytica to target voters.
The latest spending figures come after the Conservative Party was accused of misrepresenting a BBC News article in a misleading Facebook advert.
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“This is an alleged crime to subvert our democracy."
A leading Brexit campaigner has been recorded praising Nazi propaganda. Andy Wigmore of the Leave.EU campaign said Nazi techniques had been "very clever", admitting that the Brexit campaign group fronted by Nigel Farage used outrage techniques to gain attention. Speaking to academic researcher Dr. Emma Briant, who recorded the conversation, ...
Brexit has given people license to be openly racist according to Baroness Lawrence. Speaking to LBC this morning the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence said instances of racism are on the rise in Britain, and the Brexit vote is to blame for bringing it to the surface. Stephen Lawrence was killed ...
Late last year before news of the Facebook data mining scandal broke Cambridge Analytica told Campaign magazine that getting people to vote is "no different from marketing toothpaste". The shameless brag by commercial vice-president Richard Robinson gave an unvarnished view of how the company works, by "understanding people's motives", what their "attitudes ...
By Roger Cottrell, PhD At 8.00 pm on March 23, 2018, 18 officers of the Information Commission Office led by Elisabeth Denham raided the headquarters of Cambridge Analytica in Mayfair, London, having secured a warrant to do so from a Judge in less than 48 hours. This may seem like ...
A web page linking Leave.EU to Cambridge Analytica has been leaked online after being deleted in the wake of the Facebook scandal. The data-mining company was exposed by whistleblower Christopher Wylie in the Observer for harvesting 50 million social media profiles of US voters which was used by Donald Trump's adviser Steve ...
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